…schools, will help the Mohawk Trail, Frontier, Pioneer, Mahar, Gill-Montague and Franklin County Technical school districts, as well as Greenfield schools, develop more “trauma-informed” cultures. An outcome will be to…
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New Title IX Rule Has Explicit Ban on Discrimination of LGBTQ+ Students
The new rule expands the definition of sex discrimination but doesn’t address transgender athletes’ participation in school sports LGBTQ+ students will receive explicit legal protection from sex discrimination and harassment…
Focus on Teaching Students in Poverty
…and equity matters as they impact education. This month, he presented on this topic at the 2020 Migrant Education Program and English Language Development Conference in Harrisburg, PA. The conference…
Mahar teacher Angela Cote honored for ‘making learning fun
ORANGE — Ralph C. Mahar Regional School teacher Angela Cote has been named a 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award winner. Cote, 54, has been teaching at Mahar for seven years…
Not country — but a great teacher: Kayla Werlin of Hadley wins Country Music Association Award as a top music instructor
…recognizing Werlin this year as one of the top public school music teachers in the nation. Werlin, who lives in Hadley and chairs the Music Department of Longmeadow High School,…
Trauma Informed Schools: Creating Classroom Culture
I think we can all agree that despite all we know about behavior and trauma sensitive schools, the behaviors and attitudes about learning seen in today’s classrooms have changed. Since…
Mary Connolly
…and Health Education, a special book that includes chapters from professionals from across the country and Europe. Mary received the MAHPERD Joseph McKenney Award in 2020. It is the highest…
Story exhibit on May 1st highlights action-oriented conversations around anti-racism
…separate or isolated.” The plan in 2019 was to create a physical exhibit for the stories that were collected so far, but when schools closed in March 2020 due to…
Schools chief Tari Thomas to retire
…Schools, Ralph C. Mahar Regional School and Petersham consolidated school districts, said she is entering her last year in education, and her retirement will be official in August 2020. “It…
Emily Hoffman
…the migrant program since 2010. She holds a M.Ed. in Museum Education from Bank Street School of Education in New York, NY and a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst,…